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"NAVCO's [National Vehicle Corporation] employees seen in the process of assembling one of the buses used by the Jamaica Omnibus Service Company. NAVCO employs some 70 people, all Jamaicans. They were trained by a leading U.K. - based bus-building…

"A NAVCO (National Vehicles Corporation) employee carries out work on a locally fabricated frame. The frames are designed with the maximum protection of passengers in mind and are well suited for rural operations. The buses also have a strengthened…

"The finished product - one of NAVCO's (National Vehicles Corporation) latest designs, the M-79. More than 50% of the raw materials that have gone into the production of this bus were produced locally by suppliers and sub-contractors to…

"New JOS bus: Three of the Guy Victory J buses, produced by Leyland, arrived in the island from England Thursday for the JOS. The others are expected to come in by February next year.

Each bus is equipped with a five-speed semi-automatic gearbox…

"A JOS National bus being unloaded recently at Newport West. Nineteen new JOS buses have arrived in Kingston since July 8. Fourteen are already in service and five are being prepared for duty. This brings the total number of Leyland National buses in…

"A portion of one of the damaged buses."

Result of violence: Shattered rear window and a bullet hole in the roof panel remain in mute testimony in JOS bus M46 after gunmen opened fire at a bus stop near Saunders Lane along Mountain View Avenue, last Thursday morning.

A Jamaica Omnibus Services (JOS) bus being repaired.

"Broken block: This is a broken cylinder block of a Gardener type engine. The break occurred as a result of water reaching into the cylinder through the air-clean, this de-compressing the chamber and causing the connecting rod to bend and hitting…

"Latest shipment of Leyland National buses for the Jamaica Omnibus Service. Picture was taken at the Industrial Terrace deport of the JOS."